Click Here to Listen To: Review of Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties by Sharon K. Farber, interviewed by Marshall Poe on February 20, 2014.
Conflict: Freud and Culture Exhibit
Neuroscientist David Amodio on subconscious racial prejudice and why we’re still responsible for our actions
Subverted in Haiti: Kliman and colleagues Retract earlier report on alleged child rape
Subverted in Haiti: Kliman and colleagues retract earlier report on alleged child rape. N. Szajnberg
The misery of Haiti is amplified by some of its own citizens. A 2103 New York Times Review report by Berlinski (Haiti: The compromising reality. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/06/haiti-compromising-reality/?insrc=toc.) painfully, poignantly recounts multiple accounts of Western, well-intentioned well-doers have their efforts, funds subverted by some Haitians and that there is a long history and culture of such subversion. Berlinski offers few examples of successful foreign projects, usually those narrow in scope and whose foreign principal moves to, lives among and administers the funds. Continue reading Subverted in Haiti: Kliman and colleagues Retract earlier report on alleged child rape
Nigeria, college campuses, bigotry and violence from Sasha Rolde on IP.net
Dear Colleagues,
As we try to absorb the world news about the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian girls all week, my heart goes out to their mothers on the eve of Mother’s Day. Browsing thru the international psychoanalytic website I have not found a plausible explanation for this atrocity, and can only say that at least we are trying to understand man and human nature from a different vantage point which perhaps some day will lead to an end of human brutality. I list below the posts which caught my own interest and urge you to look at the entire menu, read the posts that appeal and please comment.
My choices:
1) The Inaugural Lecture, “Freud, Moses and the Holocaust*** in Philadelphia. with speaker Eli Zaretsky, (Audio/Video)
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Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too? by Langston Hughes
Program change: Graziella Rossi to perform “How is this Professor Freud…?” May 21 in lieu of “Sabina Spielrein”
Program Change for May 21, 2014
Please note that in lieu of the one-woman play Sabina Spielrein, LBI and the Zürich Meets New York Festival will present the following theatrical performance featuring Graziella Rossi.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 7:00 PM | Lecture and Staged Reading
“How is this Professor Freud, and how does he actually behave?” Diary of an Analysis, April 1921
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The Murder Trial of Sigmund Freud
Lacan on Psychoanalytic Savior-Faire and the Sinthome with Adriana Passini and Martin Winn
Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, March 28, 2014
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
LACAN ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SAVOIR-FAIRE AND THE SINTHOME, Seminar
ADRIANA PASSINI and MARTIN WINN
Beginning with readings of selected classes from Lacan’s Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, we will address the notions of the unconscious, repetition, and transference, and Lacan’s idea of psychoanalysis as the search for knowledge as truth. Continue reading Lacan on Psychoanalytic Savior-Faire and the Sinthome with Adriana Passini and Martin Winn